As I read and hear more about this "Advantage BC" stuff, I think it's the final straw for me. There's no good reason for this lack of transparency. The only reason I can think of that it might have been set up in such a way is to dodge Freedom of Information requests. When something is done in what appears to be a deliberate effort to avoid transparency, I think it's completely reasonable to suspect that shenanigans are going on.

Here in the Kim City/Lost Lake riding, I can vote for or against Ms Clark directly. I suspect she'll win anyway, but I'll be voting for her NDP opponent.

There's still a good chance the Liberals will get their majority. The NDP candidate in Courtnay-Comox won by 9 votes and the Liberal candidate is a former member of the armed forces so the absentee ballots may very well be a game changer.

And if the seats remain the same, my prediction is Andrew Weaver will officially join the Liberals for a coalition now that he failed to deliver on handing them another victory through vote splitting.

The way he kept attacking Horgan throughout the campaign and cozying up to the Liberals even though NDP is much more aligned with the Green environmental platform, it was quite obvious which one of the viable parties Weaver is rooting for.

YEP well all the votes are counted and Christy Clark still doesn't have a majority, and now both her and the NDP say they want to form the government.

SOOOO while you'd think the LtGov would give Christy the first crack at it, given that she is the incumbent and has the most seats, apparently that's not etched in stone and if the NDP and Greens approach the LtGov with a formal coalition, she could opt to give them the first chance.

ABOUT the Lt Gov: Judith Guichon is apparently a rancher from the Merritt area. No doubt her lifetime of wrangling cattle has left her well prepared for dealing with this situation!

If the Greens and NDP have a formalized coalition then their coalition holds the most seats and it would be in the province's best interest that they're allowed to govern. By giving it to Clark, the Lt Gov is all but ensuring that the opposition will just bring down the government at the first opportunity. The only option then would be to allow the coalition to govern, since it's not like they'll call an election immediately after just having one.

I think another election within 18 month is prteey much assured regardless of who forms the government. Elections are a crap shoot for every party and they will have to think long and hard before forcing one.

I think another election within 18 month is prteey much assured regardless of who forms the government. Elections are a crap shoot for every party and they will have to think long and hard before forcing one.

It's still a coalition between two parties, many of who's interests are not the same. It can fall apart at any time. It all depends on how much each of them are willing to give in order for he coalition to stay together.